Principle Mechanical Engineer

JOB TITLE: Principal Mechanical Engineer
SALARY: £30 p/h Ltd.
EMPLOYMENT TERM: Contract, 6 months
INDUSTRY: Engineering, Defence
LOCATION: Hertfordshire

Role Purpose:
To undertake a full range of engineering activities in line with all relevant process, quality and other requirements.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

- Evaluate technical issues in order to develop proposals for investigations and/or solutions
- Carry out a full range of technical analyses and investigations, including evaluation and selection of technical options, and prepare reports with suggested recommendations to support the resolution of problems and the improvement of engineering capability.
- Prepare a full range of specifications, develop designs in line with specifications and all quality and technical standards, and carry out design appraisals in assigned areas to ensure all standards are maintained.
- Carry out investigations into a full range of problems, issues or developments and develop and prepare solutions, individually or as a member of a project team.
- Define testing approaches and specify tests in assigned/specialist area(s) and evaluate and make recommendations based on results, including making suggestions to improve test/diagnosis processes.
- Act as the main point of contact with customers (internal and external) and/or suppliers and collaborators in assigned areas on engineering matters, to resolve a full range of problems and issues and to maintain an awareness in both parties of priorities and objectives.
- Lead, for assigned programmes, the production of documentation to support the in-service use of products.
- Provide effective support to customers in assigned areas, delivering solutions to meet the customer's needs and requirements plus the programme plan.
- Make engineering decisions within own sphere of responsibility and delegated authority.
- Take responsibility for design authority as appropriate.
- Provide help and direction to less experienced team members to support both their effective working and their development.
- Manage and report against the team's work programmes, including analysis of risk, to ensure the team delivers its accountabilities.

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

- Significant practical experience and/or suitable vocational qualification
- Pro-Engineer experience only
- Experience across all aspects of a single engineering area/domain and an appreciation of other areas
- Able to work from first principles
- Good working experiences in more than one phase of the engineering life cycle, with sufficient experience of the total life cycle to ensure a good understanding of adjacent phases and through-life engineering issues
- Capable of managing projects/work packages
- Able to deal with multiple issues, tasks
- and priorities concurrently
- Substantial analytical and problem solving skills
- Knowledge of customer and user requirements
- Full understanding of relevant engineering and quality standards

The Company:
"Our client is a world leading, global missile systems company, delivering cutting-edge technologies to its multinational customer base. It operates in all of the major world markets and is the only company able to design and produce missiles and missile systems for army, navy and air forces. Their growing reputation for innovation and technical excellence owes much to their engineering facilities, rated amongst the most modern in the world.

Our engineers relish the challenge of producing products to the highest performance specifications and with ability to survive the harshest environments required for the Land, Sea and Air services.

They will have the knowledge, skills, capability and commitment to apply today's modern technologies to solve complex problems, that ensure the equipment can survive the toughest usage profiles that today's armed forces demand.

To be successful applicants will also need to have excellent personal competencies, be highly motivated and work within multinational teams of all sizes!

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a market leading dynamic company who can offer career progression and personal development."

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